My Thang

Four great spotted woodpeckers, seven ticks, and a red deer.

Some of the highlights of my first morning walk back at our wee wooden house in the Netherlands. Ideally I would have spotted a Tickpecker too, but in its absence, Ineke got the tweezers out and dealt with that problem. So hopefully Lymes avoided this time, but a warning to be careful. Coz, as I have previously discovered, these Dutch ticks seem to carry more of that particular bloody cocktail than the friendlier Scottish variety.

In other unrelated news, I am not a guitar geek. Unlike some of my good songwriting friends. I’ve only had two “proper” guitars. And the very first of them is now left over here on a permanent basis. So it’s nice to be back with Simon and Patrick. He (They?) is different to Taylor… but does the main thing just fine: I have a music making instrument to hand.

It’s a bit of a necessity really. Though a little bit harder to do My Thang without disturbing family and neighbours.

Oh, well. Sometimes you’ve just got to be disturbing.